The Great Circular Award Ceremony Comes to the Washington Post

It turns out that the Washington Post’s brush with the anti-copyright crowd really is the gift that keeps on giving. Recall that the Post’s “The Switch” blog posted a manufactured story about how great Google is and how piracy is actually “Hollywood’s” own fault (whoever “Hollywood” is these days) at least according to PiracyData.org, a new site that comes from the Google funded Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Notably, Mr. Brito and Mr. Dourado, co-creators of the PiracyData.org website, just last month were two of four individuals nationally to win an “IP3 Award” from Public Knowledge for advancing Public Knowledge’s Internet commons view of the “public interest,” i.e. that content generally should be shared publicly for free online.